Staff recommendations for children at a kindergarten reading level.
When a studious polar bear meets an inquisitive goose, they learn to be friends.
Bear's efforts to keep out a visitor to his house are undermined by a very persistent mouse.
The letters of the alphabet are transformed and incorporated into twenty-six illustrations, so that the hole in "b" becomes a balloon and "y" turns into the head of a yak.
Although they like different things, Big Pig and Little Pig enjoy spending time together.
Biscuit the puppy helps a little duck find its way home to the pond and makes a friend along the way.
A retelling of the classic tale Chicken Little, who has an acorn fall on his head and runs in a panic to tell his friends that the sky is falling!
Fancy Nancy
To cheer up her classmates after a gloomy week, Nancy thinks of a new celebration, Fancy Day, but when the day arrives Ms. Glass shows up without her fancy dress, and the class must think of a way to make her as elegant as everyone else.
Using simple text and illustrations with cutouts, shows how animals and objects change, including tadpoles to frogs and seeds to flowers.
Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day. Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night."
Eager to have a star of his own, a boy devises imaginative ways of catching one – with surprising results.
In the rhythm of a familiar folk song, a child cannot resist adding one more dab of paint in surprising places and makes a delicious mess!
Annalina's diary entries reflect her feelings and experiences as she goes from being afraid to go to kindergarten to loving it during her first month of school.
Little Mouse gets ready to go to the barn with his with his family, with a surprising twist at the end. Part of the Toon Books graphic novel series for early readers.
At bedtime, a young boy who cannot find his favorite book imagines the various creatures that might have taken it from him.
A young boy and his father have a good time making a map as they explore the neighborhood. Part of the “We Both Read” series, written for adults and children to read together.
We are all passengers of the Earth as it spins, tilts and circles the sun. Learn about the Earth's cycles and how they affect our lives through the days and seasons.
Everyday signs serve as captions for this pictorial tale of what happens after a man tosses a banana peel into the garbage can and misses.
Pete the cat
Pete the cat wears his school shoes when visiting the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and more while singing his special song.
When his puppy Mudge gets dirty, Henry has some trouble giving him a bath.
Meet Scaredy Squirrel, a squirrel who never leaves his nut tree because he's afraid. Laugh along when his careful plan produces unexpected results.
Otto the robot lands on Earth, where he is chased by a rhinoceros and befriended by some monkeys.
Rhyming text asks if the reader can move like a variety of athletes, in a book where striped acetate overlays on board pages give illustrations the illusion of movement.
A lion, a dog, and a tiger balance apples on their heads.
Celebrates in verse, accompanied by photographs, the many things hands can do – and all the tools made for hands.
When Little Boy is frightened by a squeaky bedroom door, his grandmother brings in various animals to help him feel secure enough to sleep.
When Max gets in trouble after speeding up a ramp, all of his Trucktown friends try to help out.
Through illustrations and simple text, birds demonstrate the meanings of the words up, tall, and high.
Best friends Gerald and Piggie discover the joy of “being read.” But what will happen when the book ends?
Brief text and stunning photographs compare animals that prefer to stay wet, with those that stay dry.
Although his mother is a little worried, a young boy is delighted to discover that every shop in town is giving away real dinosaurs to their customers.
A little boy gets everything he asks for on Yes Day, a special day that only comes once a year.
From a park in China to a campfire in Australia, loving moms, dads, and kids share their lives.
Eight folktales from “Little Red Riding Hood” to “The Enormous Turnip” come to life from the author of the popular “Maisy” books.